This colorful history of pioneer life in Arizona sheds light on the experiences of the homesteader families who founded the Kansas Settlement.
In 1909, fifteen families left their homes in Kansas to claim homesteads a thousand miles away in a remote region of the Arizona Territory. In this beautiful but unforgiving new home, they would realize their dream of owning their own land. They named their new community Kansas Settlement.
Those who persevered met the challenges, raised their families, and prospered. Their determination was inspiring and left a legacy of courage. In
One Hundred Sixty Acres of Dirt, author Marsha Arzberger tells the tales of these remarkable people—farmers, cowboys, pioneer women, and schoolmarms—drawn from personal journals and family scrapbooks.
A descendent of one of the original Kansas Settlement families, Arzberger vividly recounts their journey West, as well as their dealings with rustlers, droughts, Apaches, and straying husbands. This carefully researched account captures the daily lives, joys, and tragedies of Arizona's Kansas Settlement.
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One Hundred Sixty Acres of Dirt
A History of the Pioneers of Kansas Settlement, Arizona Territory, 1909 and Stories, including The Schoolmarm's Pearl Handled Pistol
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eBook - ePub
One Hundred Sixty Acres of Dirt
A History of the Pioneers of Kansas Settlement, Arizona Territory, 1909 and Stories, including The Schoolmarm's Pearl Handled Pistol
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: Explanation of Homestead Descriptions
- Section I: They Came From Kansas
- Section II: Early Pioneers Who Came From Somewhere Other Than Kansas 97
- Section III: The Neighbors: Early Settlers in the Sulphur Springs Community
- Section IV: Changes as the Years go by
- Section V: Stories of the Past
- Section VI: The People and the Land Change 205
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Appendix A: Other Early Settlers
- Appendix B: The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
- Appendix C: Pioneer Recipe
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